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...still the bulk of our portfolio. Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Pfizer, Microsoft - a lot of stocks that have great positioning in the market, really strong balance sheets to weather problems, stable top line. Those sorts of stocks have stability in down markets, though that stability hurts you when things start taking off. Around the edges now, in October and November, we started adding some more aggressive names, like some of the oil guys which bounced real hard. We bought Anadarko. We bought Valero. We put about 10% of the portfolio in those types of names. Eventually we'll have...
...really excited to see the next number come out because that's going to tell me a lot about what's going on. If we're back up in the 6 to 8% range, then that actually makes me optimistic. Once things stabilize, we can start growing again...
...tried to limit our exposure to the banks. We've dipped our toe in the water a few times now. USBancorp, I think, will be a survivor and will thrive. But we've got quarters of difficulty. The hardest part of this is figuring out when people will start looking beyond the near-term. We've tried to take small steps into the riskier stuff. We ended up buying Bank of America again, since that worked out so well for us last year, but a smaller piece. The round-trip hasn't worked well, and we've lost some...
Relax. If you can't find time to get away for the whole weekend, the Chopra Center & Spa in New York City is offering the "Cupid's Kiss" package starting with a Navina Sensory Bath - filled with herbs and essentials oils to detoxify and replenish the skin - for two. Once waterlogged, you start an 80-min. Odyssey Ayurvedic treatment with five therapies - among them, a Garshana exfoliating treatment, an Abhyanga tension-dissolving massage and a Vishesh treatment, during which technicians use firm, precise hand strokes to deepen the healing process. The tactile adventure finishes off with a Marma treatment...
...Holbrooke's unenviable task, then, will be to persuade Pakistan's security establishment to abandon such accommodations with Taliban militants operating on their territory and to reorient itself away from preparing for war with India and toward counterinsurgency at home. Tackling the Kashmir issue would be a start, but that's more easily said than done. India has long rebuffed the principle of international mediation on what it insists is an internal issue. As long as the question of where Pakistan's and India's borders are drawn remains a point of potentially hostile contention, Pakistan's ambiguous relationship with...